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Brian Henry Martin (Chair of Belfast Film Festival) is flanked by two characters from the Japanese Horror film Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl showing during this year’s Belfast Film Festival at the QFT
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| | | |  | | | | | | | | | Belfast Film Festival celebrates its 10th birthday and in order to mark this milestone this year’s Festival will be extended to run over 16 days from 15th–30th April. The film festival has grown exponentially from being a small element within a bigger community festival, to becoming one of the key cultural events in Northern Ireland. Upwards of 16,000 people attended its events in 2009.
The 10th Belfast Film Festival boasts over 30 UK/Irish premieres in a jam packed programme, with 125 screenings and events across Belfast from over 25 countries including, Russia, Japan, Iran, Argentina, Israel and South Africa, to name but a few.
The Festival opens on Thursday 15th April at the Moviehouse, Dublin Road with the UK/Irish Premiere of Triage starring man of the moment, Colin Farrell.
Closing night film of the 10th Belfast Film Festival, will be the UK/Ireland premiere of a film by one of Hollywood’s greatest directors-Francis Ford Coppola; Tetro starring Vincent Gallo is Coppola’s first original screenplay since The Conversation; this beautiful film, is shot in black and white and set in the bristling streets of Buenos Aires.
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Click here to download th PDF of the 2010 programme (12.4MB) | | | | |
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